what's MX?

hoihtah

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hi, when talking about domain names...
what's MX?

any lead to this would greatly appreciated. :)
 

gopunk

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i don't have a very thorough understanding of it, but it has something to do with mail... i think you specify the mail servers with it.
 

hoihtah

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no... not .mx

i'm talking about MX as to DNS.

i understand what dns' are... but... what' the heck is mx?
 

hoihtah

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thanx go punk...

is there any webpage that might explain this a bit further?

i'd really like to know...

thanx again.
 

hoihtah

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i was just down in nicaragua this past summer...
and they had computers.

donno about mexico though. ;)
 

bastula

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Mail exchanger (record) i think.

It sets up the mail exchange for when you use your domain for email purposes. Like which mail server receives email for your domain. For example for my domain bastula.org - my mail exchange record is set to mail.bastula.org (my server which handles all my email).
 

Platypus

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Another guilty first-worlder indeed. :disgust: